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About Scott Burnett

Scott Burnett is a researcher at the Wits Centre for Diversity Studies, where he investigates the renovation of racial hierarchies - specifically, 'hegemonic' whiteness - in environmental and environmentalist discourses. This perspective involves a critical approach that asks whether attempts to promote responsible stewardship of the earth may mask the reproduction of harmful social divisions. His doctoral research is on the debate over 'fracking' in the Karoo, and is supervised by South Africa's leading scholar on critical whiteness, Melissa Steyn. For his efforts to subvert the colonial racial legacy, white liberals (including a certain irascible aunty from the Western Cape) frequently pay him generous and eloquent tribute on Twitter. Before joining Wits, Scott served in various programme design and management positions for loveLife, the youth leadership development and teenager-focused HIV-prevention campaign. Scott holds an MSc in Philosophy and Public Policy from the London School of Economics, and a B.A.Hons from the university currently named after the chap who should have fallen already